New USFS Resources
Tools
New guidebook available for hosting meetings that build relation-
ships and foster creativity: Stewardship Salons: A guide to collaborative
learning spaces that foster and strengthen local networks
Comprehensive listing of federal programs and resources to fund green
infrastructure and nature-based solutions in your community
New guide for centering environmental justice as a focus for growing support for urban for-
estry programs: The Urban Forestry and Environmental Justice Playbook
New interactive map on Conservation.gov capturing "nature-deprived" communities in the US and
island territories, and the Inflation Reduction Act grants in place to help mitigate the conditions.
Publications
New report on the vulnerability and adaptability of Detroit's urban forest to climate change
Arantes, Bruna Lara; Locke, Dexter Henry; Moreira, Gustavo Carvalho; Grove, J. Morgan. 2024. The relationships
between urban tree canopy cover and crime in São Paulo City, Brazil. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
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Full Collection of UCFS Case Studies
Available on the Website!
UCFS Case Studies—all 37 of them—are an enduring,
excellent resource! Each case study contains detailed
advice and anecdotes from an average of 7 or 8
urban and community forestry professionals.
The case study themes to date are:
Bees, Bioswales, Building Bridges Between LAs and MAs,
Building Bridges with City Depts, Cemeteries, Climate Change,
Conifers, Consulting, Contract Growing Partnerships, Drought,
EAB, Fall Planting, Flooding, Gas Lines and Trees, Historic Trees,
Invasives, Large Tree Relocation, Medians, Memorial Trees,
Natural Areas in the Urban Forest, Palms, Pruning Cycles, Pyrus
We Have a Problem, Retired from the Municipality, Sewer
Lines, Slopes, Social Networking, Stormwater and Watersheds,
Teaching, Tree Boards, Tree Lights, Urban Forestry's Location in
City Departments, Urban Fruit Trees, Urban Wood (x 2), Zoos.
Bees, Zoos, and Everything In-Between:
